Anna Keys, “Pappa’s ship”

Delightful Naive Folk Art Needlework Picture
Depicting Two Whaling Ships and Whales in a Choppy Sea

United States c. 1865

14.5” high x 13.25” wide

Ref: 7227

Signed: Hand written note to verso reads; “John Keys sailed on Ship ‘Abigail’ from New Bedford in 1862 aged 25. His father David Keys was Steward on the Bark ‘Hecla’ sailed 1849 returned 1852, New Bedford. John Keys was from Savansay NH”


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